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According to the Wall Street Journal, the heiress turned businesswoman, 44, is the proud new owner of the astonishing abode, which boasts 12 bedrooms and 20 bathrooms.

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Hicks McTaggart’s pursuit of a runaway heiress lands him in Hungary among Nazis, British spies and many more friends and foes.

All begins sunnily, however, in the year 1899, when Evelyn, a self-confessed hack writer of travel books, with one failed novel to his name, marries an American heiress.

The author of “Gravity’s Rainbow” sends a private eye on the trail of a missing heiress in a complex, comic, Prohibition-era caper.

The magazine painted Johnson, widely known by her nickname Libet, as another spoiled American heiress with too much money and not enough purpose.

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